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From: Eivind Eklund <perhaps@yes.no>
To: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu>
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In-reply-to: Annelise Anderson's message of Tue, 1 Jul 1997 01:05:30 -0700
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Subject: Re: Why Not Make tcsh the default shell?
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> 
> Why does FreeBSD install csh as the default shell instead of tcsh?
> 
> Stanford University provides tcsh as the default shell....apparently
> not being concerned about confusing all the hics from Iowa with
> its added features.....

Bloat.  We've got sh and csh due to the POSIX requirement that they
both should be present, as many scripts use them.  For interactive
shells, there are a lot of different preferences, and we provide many
of them as ports - so you can mix'n'match just those of them you want.

A lot of people prefer bash or zsh over tcsh; some don't even feel
bothered by csh, e.g. due to using emacs around the shell anyway.

Eivind.